May 14, 2011

As you can tell from the title I've been a bit obsessed with sewing lately!

I finally put my old sewing machine and serger up on e-bay, sold them and replaced my 10 year old serger with a new one. Nothing fancy but it does what I need it to to do. I'd already replaced my sewing machine last year with a Brother Inovis QC1000 which I love. I'd dumped the embroidery because well I didn't use it much anymore, my computer crashed that had my designs and to upgrade the computer meant upgrading the embroidery software-which is ridiculously expensive....

All of this has renewed my sewing mojo and I've made like 5 skirts. They are all the same pattern New Look 6470.

and have plans for a few more plus some summer dresses. I really want to make myself a maxi dress with straps wide enough to cover my bra straps!

And I'm on a bag kick!! I've so far made 2 of the Mini Bow Tucks pattern. I adore this pattern! It is SO well written and easy to follow. If you've been thinking about trying a purse pattern-this would be the one!

With at least 3-4 more in the works.

Then I made up 2 of these cute little RunAround Bags. They're great for travel. I plan to make a few more of these as well.

Lets not forget my stint with the Grids and Grommets bags...I've made 4 (the first is unfinished because I can't get the grommets in) a big , small , and a medium one. It's a cute pattern but don't feel it's the best written. It can be a bit confusing...I found some tips somewhere on sewing it and they helped alot with my 2nd-4th bags!

March 06, 2011

NO it's not my mood... though it certainly could be, with all that is going on with Collective Bargaining and SB5 here in Ohio (and Wisconsin and several other states). I'm trying to do my part to get my voice heard, and well, that helps some. It's all a very scary proposition.

I love this sweater it came out really great! I don't think I could have hoped for a better fit!

The yarn is Dream in Color Classy in Gothic Rose.

It's the yarn from my ill fated February Lady sweater that I had messed up an arm hole opening somehow and couldn't bear to re-knit. So now I have a lovely sweater with 2 actual human sized arms! As usual if you want to know more check out my Ravelry Page for all the details!

January 18, 2011

So I have nieces that range in age from 3 1/2 to 30... So naturally when you have nieces who are married, they may have a baby! And indeed this is the case...My niece Kathy and her husband Jason are having their first baby...and with a baby comes a baby quilt! They chose not to find out if they are having a boy or a girl so they are going with a "neutral" theme- Sage greens and browns, and while their set is those colors it has bunnies on it. So it didn't have to match-but I wanted to stick with the colors. So Ken and I went shopping and he picked out this adorable monkey fabric...and I went off of that fabric. I must say I'm really happy with how the quilt turned out! I think that Kathy liked it as well!

It's the Yellow Brick Road pattern. It's really a fun random but not pattern. I think I may have to make another slightly bigger one for me!